Gold Nugget 329 - The Inestimable Treasure

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      We may be spending our time and strength, we may be exhausting ourselves and endangering our health and life in all kinds of unprofitable occupation, in fruitless labour or in amusement which begins and ends in itself, and all the time may be neglecting that one study or that one habit in the pursuit of which “standeth our eternal life.”

      There are many men in Christian countries who expend their substance upon, and occupy their very life with, horses, or dogs, or guns, who do not afford even a few hours a year to the serious study of the will of God as revealed by his Son and recorded in his Word.  The treasure which cannot be estimated in gold or silver lies untouched, as much buried from sight and use as if it had been hidden in some crypt of the temple.  It may not be our deeds, but our negligences, that we shall most fear to face in the great day of account. …

Here lies one of our great perils.  Familiarity covers the truth of God with its own veil, so that we do not see what we are looking at.  We want to read the words of Jesus Christ, to listen to the story of his great sacrifice, to hearken to his words of gracious invitation, as if we had never met with them before; we want to bring to them all the force of an unclouded intelligence, of an undulled interest.  And so with the warnings as well as with the promises of Scripture. 

 

The Pulpit Commentary, II Chronicles p. 419-420, II Chronicles 34:14-28, (W. Clarkson)

 

Gold Nugget 329 The Inestimable Treasure

 

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